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Camberley

Camberley is a town in north-west Surrey, England, around 29 miles south-west of central London.

Camberley
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The place

Camberley is a town in north-west Surrey, England, around 29 miles south-west of central London. It is in the Borough of Surrey Heath and is close to the county boundaries with Hampshire and Berkshire. Known originally as "Cambridge Town", it was assigned its current name by the General Post Office in 1877.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Camberley

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    St Michael's Abbey, Farnborough

    Saint Michael's Abbey is a Benedictine abbey in Farnborough, Hampshire, England, which belongs to the English Province of the Subiaco Cassinese Congregation. The small community is known for its liturgy, its pipe organ, and its liturgical publishing and printing.

    4.3 km · abbey in Hampshire, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    FAST Museum

    The Farnborough Air Sciences Trust museum holds a collection of aircraft, satellites, simulators, wind tunnel and Royal Aircraft Establishment-related material. It is based in Farnborough, Hampshire immediately adjacent to Farnborough Airfield on the A325 Farnborough Road.

    5.9 km · aviation museum in Hampshire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Sixth Form College, Farnborough

    The Sixth Form College Farnborough is a sixth form college situated in Farnborough, Hampshire, England. It caters for around 3,915 students and admission is mostly from schools in the local areas of Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire.

    3.5 km · sixth form college in Farnborough, Hampshire, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Tarcisius Church, Camberley

    St Tarcisius Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Camberley, Surrey. It was built between 1923 and 1924 and was designed by Frederick Walters.

    700 m · grade II listed church in Camberley, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Broadmoor to Bagshot Woods and Heaths

    Broadmoor to Bagshot Woods and Heaths is a 1,696.3-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Berkshire and Surrey that extend from a minority of the parish of Crowthorne including around Broadmoor Hospital in the west to Bagshot south-east, Bracknell north-east, and Sandhurst, south. It is part of the Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area.

    4.1 km · historical site in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Poors Allotment

    Poors Allotment is a 76-hectare nature reserve north of Camberley in Surrey. It is owned by Windlesham United Charities and managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust.

    3 km · park · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Camberley Theatre

    Camberley is a town in north-west Surrey, England, around 29 miles south-west of central London. It is in the Borough of Surrey Heath and is close to the county boundaries with Hampshire and Berkshire.

    300 m · 400 seat Theatre in Surrey, England · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    The Concrete Elephant

    The Concrete Elephant is a sculpture and local landmark standing along the A30 in Camberley on approach to The Meadows roundabout. It was created by Barbara Jones for Trollope & Colls for the Lord Mayor's Show held on the 19 November 1963, carried on a yellow low loader with a pink and grey cab behind a person dressed as a zebra carrying a zebra crossing pole and light and a red post office telephone box.

    2 km · white concrete sculpture of an elephant in Camberley, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Minley Manor

    Minley Manor is a Grade II* listed country manor house, located within a Grade II registered garden, built in the French Gothic style by Henry Clutton in the 1860s with further additions in the 1880s. The Manor is situated 2 miles north of junction 4A of the M3 between Farnborough and Yateley in Hampshire, England and is situated in 80 acres of grounds.

    6 km · 19th-century English country manor house · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Wellington College Bog

    Wellington College Bog is a 6.2-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in the grounds of Wellington College on the northern outskirts of Sandhurst in Berkshire. The site features a valley bog, which is one of the richest in the county, in terms of bryophytes and flowering plants, containing several species which are uncommon or rare in southern Britain.

    5.1 km · site of Special Scientific Interest in Berkshire, England · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    The Royal Logistics Corps Museum
  2. 02
    Frimley Lodge Park

    Free car parking, woodland and lots of open space, picnic areas, two children's playgrounds, a trim trail, miniature railway and meadows.

  3. 03
    Basingstoke Canal

    Mytchett Place Road, Mytchett (can be accessed via Frimley Lodge Park).

  4. 04
    St Tarcisius Church

    227 London Road.

From Wikivoyage: Camberley, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    The Camberley Theatre

    Offers a varied program of events to suit all tastes with drama, music, stand-up comedy, children's shows, film screenings and workshops.

  2. 02
    The Arena Leisure Centre

    Features a 25-m swimming pool, teen gym and a 50-and-over members club.

  3. 03
    Camberley Heath Golf Club

    Golf Drive,.

  4. 04
    Windlesham Golf Club

    Grove End, Bagshot, GU19 5HY,.

  5. 05
    Pine Ridge Golf Centre

    WDF World Darts Championship: 1–9 January 2022.

From Wikivoyage: Camberley, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    El Pic Tapas Bar

    177 London Road,.

  2. 02
    Old Thai House

    125 London Road,.

  3. 03
    So Asia

    Eat as much as you like buffet style restaurant with an excellent choice of Chinese, Thai and Indian foods.

  4. 04
    Zizzi

    50 Park Street,.

  5. 05
    Cinnamon

    224 Frimley Green Road,.

From Wikivoyage: Camberley, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Camberley

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 25 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 44 km · London Luton (LTN), 65 km
Stations
Bagshot railway station, 4.9 km · Farnborough North railway station, 3.7 km · Camberley railway station, 200 m · Farnborough (Main) railway station, 4.3 km · Frimley railway station, 2.6 km
  • London → Camberley
    47 km · quickest by road, 1h 27m · £5–7
  • Luton, Luton → Camberley
    64 km · quickest by road, 1h 32m · £7–10
  • London, Essex → Camberley
    47 km · quickest by road, 1h 27m · £5–7
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Camberley

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Camberley. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundFarnborough has a good network of cycle routes, the majority being either off-road or along lanes segregated from motor traffic.

From Wikivoyage: Farnborough, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    82 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    274 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    445 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    554 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    590 km

If you know how people move in Camberley – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Camberley

Camberley is 21 km from Reading, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Farnboroughtown in Hampshire, England5 km
  • Sandhursttown and civil parish in Berkshire, England4.3 km
  • Crowthornetown in Berkshire, England5.2 km
  • Surrey Heathlocal government district with Borough status in Surrey, England500 m
  • Frimleytown in the Surrey Heath borough of Surrey, England, UK2.3 km
  • Bagshotvillage in the Surrey Heath borough of Surrey, United Kingdom4.2 km